Thursday, November 17, 2005

DID SUICIDE BOMBER GIVE VICTIM HEPATITIS B?

Terrorism: Blood Feuds - Josh Schollmeyer (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
Of all her wounds, the bone fragments lodged in the body of a 31-year-old woman hurt in a May 2001 suicide attack in Israel seemed the least serious. But the bone fragments, once removed, tested positive for hepatitis B virus, raising the possibility of the transmission of a blood-borne pathogen via an infected suicide bomber.

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